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The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the grow…

corpuscles; a third kind of blood corpuscle, supposed by some to be an early stage in the development of the red corpuscles; -- called also blood plaque, and blood plate.

The origin and development of blood.

arent and opaque white rings which are seen outside the blastoderm, on the surface of the developing egg of the hen and other birds.

To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon. Thou 'harped my fear aright. Shak.

The lower group of the Wealden formation; -- so called from its development around Hastings, in Sussex, England.

Development; disclosure; discovery. Shak.

To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill.

A slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter.

Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.

Unequal development of the tail lobes of fishes; the possession of a heterocercal tail.

Having the femoral artery developed as the principal artery of the leg; -- said of certain birds, as the cotingas and pipras.

Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, as cartilage which develops into bone. Haeckel.

An order of pelagic Gastropoda, having the foot developed into a median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as Carinaria and Atlanta, have thin glassy shells.

The formation and development of organic tissues; histogeny; -- the opposite of histolysis.

Tissue-producing; connected with the formation and development of the organic tissues.

The science which treats of the laws relating to organic tissues, their formation, development, functions, etc.

c., and were often at war with the Egyptians and Assyrians. Especially in the north they developed a considerable civilization, of which numerous monuments and inscriptions are extant. Authorities are not agreed as to their race. While several attempts have been made to decipher the Hittite characters, little progress…

Rays (chiefly cathode rays) developed by the electric discharge in Hittorf tubes.

A morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unit deme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality.